Everyone's concerns were not without reason.
Ever since news of the disaster in Ancient Saint City spread, the entire Eastern Region of Zhongzhou had fallen into unprecedented chaos.
As demonic qi from East Continent gradually invaded the Eastern Region of Zhongzhou, many people began to feel an unprecedented heat and irritation welling up within them.
Most paid it no mind and suffered qi deviation.
Even the few who keenly sensed something was wrong and immediately stopped cultivating were horrified to discover a force that did not belong to them invading their meridians and contaminating their Dou Qi.
For a time, everyone was in danger. Even those who consciously tried to prevent such things from happening could not stop the others who had begun suffering qi deviation from launching indiscriminate attacks.
Former friends turned blades upon one another, brothers fought each other, sect masters went on killing sprees and slaughtered their entire sects, while reclusive experts turned cities into scorched wastelands stretching for thousands of miles in their madness.
Forces like the Gu Clan, which already possessed Dou Sheng experts, were doing relatively well, as they at least had the strength to suppress the turmoil. The sects with low-level Dou Zuns, however, were often hit the hardest.
Once demonic qi entered the body, even low-level Dou Zuns could fall victim if they were not careful. And once a Dou Zun suffered qi deviation, everyone within a thousand-mile radius would be doomed.
Three days later, the air throughout the Eastern Region of Zhongzhou carried a faint scent of blood.
The first wave of qi deviation was finally temporarily quelled through the all-out suppression efforts of the various factions in the Eastern Region of Zhongzhou, at the cost of countless lives.
Still, the major cities barely managed to regain stability.
The many experts